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Towner, Turtle Mountains, Jamestown. 
789. Zizia cordata (Walt. ) DC. Prodr. 4: 100. (1830). — 
Smyrnium cordatum Walt. Fl. Car. 114. (1788). 
Leeds, Butte; Kulm (Brenckle). And everywhere. 
Family 94. CORNACEAE Link, Handb. 2: 2. (1831). 
OSSEA Lonicer (probably in all earlier editions, even 1557?), 
Ed. Uffendal, p. 121. (1703), and Ed. Ehrhart-Uffendal 121. (1783). 
Svida Opiz Sesnam. 94. (1852). 
Type of Cornus Virg.=Cornus mas. Theophrastus and Greek 
authors called it Kraneza and Krania. Theophrastus called Cornus 
sanguinea Thelykraneia!! Hist. Plant. III.: 6 ex Stapelii Ed. 
Comment. Theophr. (1644). 
790. Ossea instolonea (A. Nels.) Nwd. & LI. 
Cornus instolonea A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 53: 224. (1912). Svida 
stolonifera riparia Rydb. Bull Torr. Bot. Club. 31: 573. (1904). 
Turtle Mountains, Towner, Minot. Des Lacs. 
MESOMORA Rudbeck, O., Fl. Lapp. Illustr. Act. Lit. Suec. 
Deo. (1726). ! 
Chamaepericlymenum ‘Tragus. Hill (1756). Undesirable, ses- 
quipedalian name. 
Cornella Rydb., Fl. of Colorado 249. (1906). 
Mesomora canadensis (Linn.) Nwd. in Am. Mid. Nat. vol. 
I: 19. (1909.) 
Cornus canadensis Linn. Sp. Pl. 117. (1753). 
Rolette Co.: Rolla (L. R. Waldron). 
OUR BIRDS IN THE SPRING OF 1914 
BY BROTHER ALPHONSUS, C. S. C. 
The March records for 1914 totalled 30, 7 more than those of 
1913. Species not seen in 1913 were: Red-héaded Woodpecker, 
Hairy Woodpecker, Cardinal, White-breasted Nuthatch, Chickadee 
Snowflake, Sparrow Hawk. Species not found in 1914 were: 
Northern Shrike and Brown Creeper. 
The Crow was well distributed throughout March, 1914, the 
longest absence being 2 days. Compared with 1913, March of this 
year had 5 more records; the totals of the two months being res- 
